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The new owners of OUT Magazine and The Advocate, two major LGBTI publications, allegedly donated money to anti-gay politicians. Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) reports that step brothers Adam Levin and Maxx Abramowitz bought the two publications, under the umbrella of PRIDE Media, back in September. The brothers are the founders of Oreva Capital, a private(…)

A transgender suicide hotline has received four times as many calls after it was revealed that the Trump administration is considering a proposal to legally erase trans people. Trans Lifeline, which is the only organisation of its kind to hire exclusively trans operators, said on Instagram on October 23 that it had also handled twice(…)

Hyatt Hotels has announced they will no longer host hate groups in their spaces. The decision comes after one of their hotels in Virginia hosted an annual conference for an anti-Muslim group. At the Skift Global Forum in New York City on Thursday (27 September), CEO Mark Hoplamazian announced the decision. ‘If a group is primarily focused(…)

New analysis has confirmed that LGBT youth are far more likely to attempt suicide than other adolescents their age. A report in JAMA Pediatrics collated data from 35 other studies. The studies included responses from 2.4 million heterosexual adolescents and 113,468 non-straight students aged between 12 and 20 from 10 countries. The data showed young(…)

Luc Bensimon, one of the plaintiffs | Photo: Facebook/Luc Malik Bensimon 15 October 2018 Four transgender plaintiffs in Kansas — two men and two women — are suing the state, saying the state’s policy on birth certificates violates their rights. While the state allows changes to driver’s licenses and state ID cards, they refused to(…)

Health care experts have been informed of a US man contracting HIV despite being on PrEP. He’s thought to be the first man in California – and only the third in the US – to contract HIV while adhering to a daily PrEP regime. PrEP is medication that mimimizes the chances of someone acquiring HIV,(…)

Nearly three-quarters of LGBT people have experienced mental health issues because of work, a survey has found. The poll, commissioned by Business in the Community with HR firm Mercer, found 72 percent of LGBT people have experience problems as a result of work. A quarter of LGBT employees (26 percent) said they had hidden their identity at(…)

Philadelphia-based Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput, who once said sexually active gays cannot take communion, now denies the existence of LGBTI people at all. Archbishop Chaput claims that church documents should refrain from using the term ‘LGBTQ’ in any official documents. He also blamed the church’s sexual abuse crisis on liberal beliefs about sexuality. ‘There is(…)

According to the state of New Jersey, educators can keep students’ transgender identities secret from their families. This new protection comes just months after the state passed three bills giving trans residents of Jersey more rights. LGBTI advocates are celebrating New Jersey’s recent guidance. They say it’s putting the state among national leaders for protecting(…)

Facebook has blocked ads containing LGBTI material for being ‘political’. Adverts for everything from a gay fairy tale cabaret in Las Vegas to a Spanish-language social group for Latino men were deemed political by the social media site’s monitors. This is despite none of them containing any form of advocacy or political views, according to(…)